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Figure 77. Apparatus for Electrolytic Preparation of Sodium Hypochlorite and Figure 78. Electrolytic Cell
- 1915
From Water Purification Plants and Their Operation, a volume primarily intended for non-technical operators of small water purification plants, and particularly of one where chemicals are used. Provides a concise…
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Figure 76. Automatic Liquid Chlorine Apparatus
- 1915
A photographic print of a liquid chlorine apparatus used for water sterilization, courtesy of the Electro-Bleaching Gas Company.
From Water Purification Plants and Their Operation, a volume primarily intended for…
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Figure 7. General View of a Mechanical Filter Plant
- 1915
Schematic showing an aerial view of a mechanical water filtering plant with cutouts to depict the interior workings of the plant.
From Water Purification Plants and Their Operation, a volume primarily intended for…
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Figure 4. General View of a Slow Sand Filter Plant
- 1915
An aerial illustration of a slow sand water filtering plant with cutouts to depict underground activity.
From Water Purification Plants and Their Operation, a volume primarily intended for non-technical operators of…
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Figure 2. Map to Illustrate how Geologic Formations Influence the Properties of Water.
- 1915
Figure depicting a map of the United States and the geographic patterns of water properties affected by geologic formations. Depicts areas of primary and secondary formations, limestone, glacial drift, and pollution by…
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Water Purification Plants and their Operation
- 1915
Primarily intended for a non-technical operator of small plants, and particularly of one where chemicals are used, Water Purification Plants and Their Operation provides a concise overview of the operation of…
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2 itemsThe Morse Key, Key Board, Telegraph Key and Relay
- 1896
Pages 481 and 482 from the 1896 volume New Catechism of Electricity detailing the key components and functionality of the telegraph. The text is accompanied by illustrations of three transmitting key devices, the Morse…
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President Henry Morton, Ph. D.
- 1892-Feb-15
Frontispiece of Biographical notice of Pres't Henry Morton, PH. D. showing a photographic reproduction of a painted portrait of Henry Morton (1836-1902). Morton was the first president of the Stevens Institute of…
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Louis Pasteur
- Born 1822 Died 1895
- Circa 1913
Photographic reproduction portrait of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), a French microbiologist who investigated the fermentative properties of bacteria, developed the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax, discovered the…
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Dr. [Charles] Chamberland
- Circa 1913
Photographic reproduction portrait of Charles Chamberland (1851-1908), a French microbiologist and colleague of renowned scientist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). Chamberland and French physician Pierre Paul Émile Roux…
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Dr. [Emile] Roux
- Circa 1913
Photographic reproduction portrait of Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853-1933), a French physician and assistant to renowned scientist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) from 1878 until 1883. Roux and French microbiologist, Charles…
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Robert Koch
- Born 1843 Died 1910
- Circa 1913
Photographic reproduction portrait of German physician and microbiologist, Robert Koch (1843-1910). Koch is considered one of the founders of modern bacteriology due to his identification of the causative agents of…
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W. M. Haffkine
- Circa 1913
Reproduction of a photographic portrait of Waldemar Mordechai Haffkine (1860-1930), a native Russian bacteriologist who worked at the Pasteur Institute to develop an anti-cholera vaccine. Haffkine is recognized as the…
- Author American Medical Association
- Publisher Burroughs Wellcome and Company
- Subject Vaccination, Burroughs Wellcome and Company, Medicine, Pharmacology, First aid in illness and injury, Exhibitions, Medical supplies, Vaccines, Haffkine, W. M. (Waldemar Mordecai), 1860-1930, Microbiologists, Bacteriology
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Professor [Emil von] Behring
- Circa 1913
Portrait of Emil von Behring (1854-1917), a German physiologist who worked to prove the possibility of transferring immunity against the toxins of tetanus and Diptheria. Behring won the 1901 Nobel Prize for Physiology…
- Author American Medical Association
- Publisher Burroughs Wellcome and Company
- Subject Vaccination, Burroughs Wellcome and Company, Medicine, Pharmacology, First aid in illness and injury, Exhibitions, Medical supplies, Vaccines, Behring, Emil von, 1854-1917, Serotherapy, Tetanus--Vaccination, Nobel Prize winners, Physiologists
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Dr. Thomas Dimsdale
- (Afterwards Baron Dimsdale) Born 1712 Died 1800
- Circa 1913
Portrait of Thomas Dimsdale, a practitioner of medicine recognized as a specialist in inoculation. Dimsdale was summoned by the Empress of Russia, Catherine II, in 1768 to introduce the practice of inoculation in…
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Benjamin Jesty
- From the original oil painting
- Circa 1913
Black and white reproduction of an oil painting portrait of Benjamin Jesty (c. 1736-1816). Jesty, a cattle farmer from Dorset, England, gained notoriety as a key contributor to the linkage of cowpox and smallpox. He was…
- Author American Medical Association
- Publisher Burroughs Wellcome and Company
- After Sharp, Michael William, c. 1776-1840
- Subject Vaccination, Burroughs Wellcome and Company, Medicine, Pharmacology, First aid in illness and injury, Exhibitions, Medical supplies, Vaccines, Jesty, Benjamin, 1736-1816, Vaccinia
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Figures 40-43: Assorted Tongs and Ice Adze
- 1893
Figures 40 through 43 from the 1893 volume The Ice Crop: How to Harvest, Store, Ship and Use Ice depicting a variety of implements used to collect and move ice during an ice harvest. Historically, ice harvesting or…
- Author Hiles, Theron L.
- Publisher Orange Judd & Company
- Subject Icehouses, Ice industry, Ice, Tools, Tongs, Adzes
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Figures 35-39: Wooden Skids, Wagon and Loading Tongs, Packing Chisels
- 1893
Figures 35 through 39 from the 1893 volume The Ice Crop: How to Harvest, Store, Ship and Use Ice depicting a variety of implements used to collect and transport ice during an ice harvest. Historically, ice harvesting or…
- Author Hiles, Theron L.
- Publisher Orange Judd & Company
- Subject Icehouses, Ice industry, Ice, Tools, Chisels
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Figures 7-11. Blowpipes
- 1840
Figure 7. Blowpipe, self-acting Spirit for bending glass tubes, Tin.
Figure 8. Blowpipe, self-acting in brass with sliding Lamp.
Figure 9. Blowpipe, Glassblower's Table, with double bellows, jets, lamp, and stand,… -
Figures 20-23. Furnace Stoves, For Experimental Purposes, Made to Order
- 1840
Figure 20. Furnace, Round Iron, very useful.
Figure 21. Furnace, Dr. Black's.
Figure 22. Furnace, on Professor Brande's Principle, made to order, price according to size.
Figure 23. Pair of large Pepy's Copper… -
Figures 28-35. Lamps
- 1840
Figure 28. Lamps, Berzelius's portable Blowpipe.
Figure 29. Lamp, Cooper's for heating Tubes.
Figure 30. Lamp, Davy's Safety.
Figure 31. Lamp, Farraday's, with four wicks, as recommended in his chemical manipulations.… -
Figures 39-41. Mercurial Troughs, Palmer's Gas Lamp, and Chemical Instruction Chest
- 1840
Figure 39. Mercurial Troughs, iron, very superior with Pepy's Gasometer attached.
Figure 40. Palmer's Gas Lamp for heating tubes, which screws on to a common gas pillar.
Figure 41. Palmer's Chemical Amusement and… -
Figures 50 and 51. Retort Stand and Chemical Scales
- 1840
Figure 50. Retort Stand large, brass, with tubulated retort, receiver.
Figure 51. Scales, Chemical, with decimal weights to the tenth of a grain, brass pans, warranted to weigh accurately to the tenth of a grain.These…
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Figures 58-61. Barometers
- 1840
Figure 58. Best Wheel Barometer with Thermometer & Spirit Level, plain mounted.
Figure 59. Best Wheel Barometer with screw Hygrometer, rosewood inlaid with pearl and German silver fittings, very elegant.
Figure 60. Upri…- Author Palmer, Edward, 1803-1872
- Printer Gilbert, William
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Barometers, Commercial catalogs, Chemical apparatus
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Figures 101-104. Pneumatic Apparatus
- 1840
Figure 101. Single Transferer
Figure 102. Double Transferer
Figure 103. Guinea and Feather Apparatus with 2 falls
Figure 104. Leslie's Pump for making Ice in any climate with three Receiver Plates each.These…